Grade 3 ( Age 8 )
Measurement and Data
• Tell and write time to nearest minute
• Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time
• Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects
• Solve word problems involving four operations with masses or volumes
• Generate measurement data, measuring lengths to halves and fourths of an inch
• Understand how concepts of area relate to multiplication and to addition
• Recognize and measure perimeter
• Measure areas by counting unit squares
• Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles in real-world problems
• Recognize area as additive
• Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons
• Use tiles and pictures to represent areas
• Understand that data are sets of individual numerical facts or measurements
• Interpret information and solve problems from data on graphs and tables
• Draw a picture graph or scaled bar graph to represent a set of data
Algebraic Thinking and Operations with Whole Numbers
• Understand products as total number of objects in a number of same-size groups
• Understand quotients as the number of objects in each share when a total is equally partitioned
• Understand division as a problem of finding an unknown factor
• Know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers
• Apply commutative, associative, and distributive properties to multiply and divide
• Multiply and divide fluently within 100
• Find unknown numbers in multiplication or division problems within 100
• Use drawings and equations with a symbol to represent an unknown number
• Solve two-step word problems involving the four operations
• Identify arithmetic patterns (5 times a number always ends in 5 or 0)
• Assess the reasonableness of answers (using estimation and mental calculation)
Fractions and Operations
• Understand a fraction as a quantity formed when a whole is partitioned into equal parts
• Understand that a unit fraction (1/b) is the quantity formed by one part when the whole is
partitioned into b equal parts
• Represent fractions on a number line diagram
• Compare fractions by reasoning about their size
• Explain the concept of fraction equivalence
• Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions
• Create models to show equivalent fractions
Geometry and Spatial Relationships
• Identify and describe a variety of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes
• Understand that shapes in different categories may share attributes
• Understand that rectangles, rhombuses, squares, and trapezoids are all quadrilaterals
• Categorize shapes by their attributes
• Partition shapes into equal areas, describing each part as a unit fraction of the whole (for a shape
partitioned into 6 parts with equal area, each part is 1/6 of the whole)
Numbers and Operations
• Understand and use place value to 1,000
• Round numbers to the nearest 10 or 100
• Add and subtract within 1,000 using place value understandings
• Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10
Reading Literature and Informational Text
• Identify main topic, idea, lesson, moral, or argument in grade-level text
• Show understanding of key details in a text
• Identify text evidence to support the author’s message or reader’s responses
• Retell stories, including tales from diverse cultures
• Describe characters in a story and how characters’ actions contribute to the plot
• Determine meanings of words or phrases as used in a text
• Describe effects and uses of words and phrases in passages
• Describe overall structure of a passage and its effect on the message
• Describe how parts of a story, poem, or drama build on other parts
• Use text features and search tools to locate relevant information
• Explain connections between events, ideas, concepts, or steps in a text
• Explain differences in points of view of characters, narrators, or writers
• Explain differences between an author’s point of view and their own
• Explain how visual images and graphics contribute to and clarify a text
• Compare and contrast themes, settings, plots, or ideas in two texts on the same topic or by the same author
• By the end of the academic year, read and understand grade-level literary and informational texts at grade level independently and with proficiency
Speaking and Listening
• Express ideas and feelings clearly
• Speak clearly and audibly in sensible sentences
• Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details
• Add visual components to a speech to clarify ideas, feelings, and thoughts
• Give and follow simple two-step directions
• Participate in conversations with diverse partners and groups
• Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
• Listen and respond to others with focus and care
• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text or in an oral presentation
• Present a report or tell a story with appropriate facts and relevant details
• Create audio recordings of stories or poems
Foundational Skills
• Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in reading words
• Know meanings of most common prefixes and suffixes
• Decode irregularly spelled grade-level words and multi-syllable words
• Read grade-level texts with purpose and understanding
• Orally read grade-level texts with accuracy, expression, and appropriate rate
• Confirm and self-correct words during oral reading
Vocabulary
• Use context clues to determine word and phrase meanings
• Use word structure clues to determine word meanings
• Use synonyms and antonyms to clarify and explain word meanings
• Use dictionaries and glossaries (print and digital) to determine or clarify word meaning
• Understand and use figurative language (similes, metaphors, idioms, adages, proverbs, etc.)
• Distinguish literal and nonliteral meanings of words in context
• Distinguish shades of meanings among related words
• Learn and use grade-level general academic vocabulary
English Language Skills
• Identify nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs and their functions in specific sentences
• Form and use regular and irregular nouns and verbs and verb tenses
• Form and use conjunctions, superlative adjectives, and superlative adverbs
• Produce complete simple, compound, and complex sentences
• Capitalize proper nouns and appropriate words in titles
• Use end punctuation, commas, and apostrophes
• Punctuate dialogue correctly
• Use grade-level spelling patterns and rules
• Consult reference materials to check spellings
• Correctly use the English language when speaking, reading, or writing
• Know when to use formal and informal English
Writing
• Write opinion, informative, or explanatory pieces that state a topic or purpose, supply relevant facts
and reasons, and present a conclusion
• Write stories that include details, put events in order, and provide a conclusion
• Make improvements and needed changes to written work
• Use transitional words and phrases to connect ideas
• Add dialogue and descriptions to develop characters and events
• Take part in shared research and writing projects
• Conduct short research task on a topic or question
• Gather information from print and digital sources and take notes
• Create written and visual works to summarize and share information
• Use tools, including digital tools, to produce and publish writing
• Write regularly for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences
Life Science
• Life cycles of plants and animals
• Plant and animal adaptation and survival
• Plant and animal behaviors
• Learned and inherited traits of living things
• Variations of inherited traits
• Relationships between traits of organisms and their survival
• Influence of environment on plant and animal traits
• Relationships in an ecosystem
• Effects of environmental changes on organisms in the environment
• Animal behavior and social interactions
• Evidence of extinct plant and animals
• Biodiversity
Earth and Space Science
• Weather and climate patterns and predictions
• Climate variations
• Natural hazards resulting from natural processes
Physical Science
• Physical properties of matter (size, shape, weight, volume, flexibility, luster, color, texture, hardness,
odor, etc.)
• Forms of energy (heat, sound, chemical, mechanical, and electrical)
• Heat release and transfer
• Energy transformations (such as heat to light)
• Interactions of matter and energy
• Sound (pitch, vibrations, volume) and how sound travels
• Sizes and kinds of forces, including gravity
• Relationships between force and motion
• Effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object
• Patterns and measurements of an object’s motion
• Electric or magnetic interactions between objects not in contact with each other
• Simple machines
History
• Uniqueness of the history of each community or culture
• Ways cultural history is passed from one generation to the next (legends, oral histories, folktales, etc.)
• Key events in history of selected world communities
• Key places and people in history of selected world communities
• Timelines of historical features of selected world communities
• Technological developments in transportation and communication in selected world communities
• Development of trade in selected world communities
Economics
• Available resources, human and natural, for the selected world community
• How the selected community uses resources to meet basic needs and wants
• Concepts of surplus and scarcity in relation to the selected community
• Ways of meeting basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter in the selected community
• Ways people earn a living now and in the past in the selected community
• Goods and services produced in each selected community
• Goods products or services exported and imported in the selected community
• The role of trade in the selected community
Community and Culture
• Comparison of family and school activities in own community with those of selected world communities
• Comparison of cultural traditions in own community with those of selected world communities
• Components of culture and diversity of communities (language, customs, traditions, beliefs, practices, celebrations)
• Cultural features, traditions, and symbols of selected world communities
• Arts, music, dance, and literature of selected world communities
• Concept of cultural diffusion and how it happens
• Comparison of effects of cultural communities in selected world communities on people, ideas, practices, and products
Geography
• Earth’s equator, hemispheres, continents, and oceans
• Earth’s regions
• Earth’s grid system (lines of latitude and longitude)
• Understanding of map features and use, including scale
• Comparing locations of selected world communities to one’s own country
• Use of a variety of maps to locate and examine selected world communities
• Political and physical features of selected communities
• Ways physical and climate features influence people in selected communities
• Use of maps to identify one’s own location and relative locations
• Location of one’s own local land, regions, river systems, and highways
• Physical and human features of state (or province, territory) and neighboring states (or provinces, territories)
• How geographical features affect population patterns
• Human adaptations to the geography of the specified world community
• Construction of maps, tables, graphs, charts
Citizenship
• Concept of democracy and principles of democratic government
• Type of government in the selected community; comparison to other governments
• How leaders are chosen in the selected world community
• How problems are solved in the selected world community
• Ways the government keeps people safe, maintains order, provides for needs
• Role of citizens in the selected community
• Concept of universal human rights of fair treatment and fulfillment of needs
• Examination of the concept of human rights in the selected community
• Concept and examples of health choices and their consequences
• Influences on health choices (peers, media, family, community, culture)
• Elements of and reasons for good personal hygiene
• Types of nutrients and healthy choices for food
• Regular participation in active play and other physical activities (contingent on any physical or other limitations)
• Reasons to get enough sleep and relaxation
• Strategies for a personal health plan
• Safety rules for daily and recreational activities (walking, being near streets, water play, riding in a car, biking, etc.)
• Ways to prevent common childhood injuries (including poisoning)
• Basic structures and functions of the human body
• Symptoms of common illnesses; causes of diseases
• Ways body defends against germs
• Measures to prevent spread of disease
• Practicing procedures for response to emergencies, including using telephone
• Getting out of house or school in event of fire
• Appropriate skills to identify, avoid, and cope with potentially dangerous situations
• Identify safe behaviors around strangers
• Harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs on health
• Understanding of human development and changes
• Development of self-confidence and self-esteem
• Respect and consideration for all individuals
• Ways to identify, express, and manage feelings appropriately
• Positive social practices with peers, in home, and community
• Differences between tattling and reporting
• Bullying, alternative behaviors to bullying, and appropriate responses to bullying
• Strategies for resolving conflicts with peers and others
• Skills for meeting people, making friends, and being a good friend
• Getting personal support from family; communication with family
• How and where to get help in making health decisions
• Perform and create artistic movements and patterns
• Identify melody, rhythm, harmony, and timbre in musical selections
• Respond to sounds and sound patterns with body movements
• Improvise music with classroom instruments
• Listen, describe, and respond to a variety of music
• Read and write patterns with musical notes
• Identify some common musical instruments by sight and sound
• Identify some musical forms
• Sing age-appropriate songs with accuracy from memory
• Improvise dramatizations of stories or ideas
• Take part in writing scripts, designing sets, and performing group dramas
• Create costumes and props for a performance
• Observe patterns in nature and works of art
• Identify and describe elements in works of visual art (line, color, texture, shapes/form, space, value)
• Create original works of visual art in various media and dimensions
• Express observations, ideas, or feelings through music, drama, or visual art
• Identify and discuss some well-known works of dance, drama, music, or visual arts and some artists,
actors, writers, musicians, choreographers, or composers
• Analyze a variety of works of dance, music, drama, and visual arts
• Learn and use vocabulary of dance, music, drama, and visual arts
• Describe techniques for a given form of art
• Compare and contrast two works of art
• Understand how culture affects art and how art reflects culture
• Demonstrate appropriate audience skills for live artistic performances
• Concepts, characteristics, and real-life uses of technology
• Basic parts of technology systems and basic technological devices
• Continued development of keyboard skills
• Opening, closing, saving, sending, and storing files, applications, and programs
• Effective use of available grade-level technology
• Use of tools and devices to complete tasks and solve problems
• Use of tools to produce creative original works
• Use of tools to interact and exchange ideas with peers, teacher, parents, or other students
• Use of tools and devices to develop cultural understanding
• Use of tools to access information for an inquiry project
• Exploring virtual environments, simulations, programs, models, and applications
• Participation in group collaborative interactive projects and activities
• Developing, printing, and publishing in print and digital formats
• Evaluating content, applications, and programs
• Digital citizenship, etiquette, fair use guidelines, and copyrights
• Practice of safe online behavior
• Responsible care of digital equipment
• Positive attitudes toward technology for learning
• Demonstrating openness to learning and using new technologies
